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It's an uprooting, roots need room to spread and grow, otherwise it tries to push it's way out. Like this did. Time to refresh so the roots can breath once again.
Info on CEO Markus Jooste
Steinhoff’s secret history – How Markus Jooste’s scam began
https://amabhungane.org/stories/steinhoffs-secret-history-how-markus-joostes-scam-began/
Incredible how he got away with this for so long.
Border Patrol's secret eyes in the skies: 1,200 active-duty troops lead agents to illegal crossers
EL PASO, Texas — More than half of active-duty troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border are quietly carrying out their assigned missions as the “eyes and ears“ of Border Patrol as agents focus resources to responding to constant migrant interdictions. Roughly 3,900 active-duty troops and National Guard remain deployed to the southern border as of early June. Approximately 1,200 of the 2,000 Army soldiers and Marines working in the four border states are on the frontlines of the action. These troops operate more than 150 pick-up trucks that carry state-of-the-art Mobile Surveillance Capabilities (MSC) systems, scanning up to 25 miles in the distance day and night for human or dug smuggling activity.
“We’re here at CBP’s request and make no mistake about it, Customs and Border Protection is in the lead. We’re in support and really look at ourselves as a force multiplier for them,” Brig. Gen. Walter Duzzny, deputy commanding general of U.S. Army North, told reporters at a briefing atop a mountain the desert Thursday morning. “We’re the eyes and ears from those MSC position along the Southwest border allowing them to conduct their mission.” The troops are back-filling jobs Border Patrol agents are supposed to be doing because agents have been pulled to the field to apprehend illegal crossers and process them at local stations where they are held before being transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Agent Julian Najera, who is assigned to Border Patrol’s Santa Teresa station in the El Paso sector. “If we were not here manning these vehicles, they would not be manned,” added Army Col. Catherine Wilkinson, a spokesperson for U.S. Army North. The mobile surveillance operations began in February, four months after the White House initially sent 5,200 active-duty troops to the border to supplement work being done by the National Guard. Duzzny announced Thursday this specific mobile surveillance operation in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California has led to more than 13,000 apprehensions of illegal border crossers and the seizure of 3,000 pounds of marijuana in four months.
Border Patrol’s El Paso region, where the briefing on the project was held, has 10 units to use for surveillance. The other systems are spread across Border Patrol’s other eight regions along the U.S.-Mexico border. Soldiers and Marines must complete a 40-hour training program prior to the assignment, which also includes operating the Customs and Border Protection-owned Ford F-150 trucks. The trucks are manned by two service members in 10-hour shifts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Customs and Border Protection dictates where each truck is assigned and switches up locations every two days. “These sites are strategic sites that provide observation over known avenues of approach to our border,” said Duzzny.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/border-patrols-secret-eyes-in-the-skies-1-200-active-duty-troops-lead-agents-to-illegal-crossers
Ilhan Omar fined by state for unlawful use of campaign funds
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has to personally pay a fine for multiple violations of the state’s campaign finance laws. The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board ordered the freshman Democrat to personally pay a $500 civil fine along with paying back $3,469 to her Minnesota statehouse campaign after she unlawfully used funds for multiple personal expenses. The board required Omar to repay $2,250 she had been reimbursed for law firm invoices for her immigration records and personal tax returns. The report said the law firm was tied to a "crisis committee" which was created to defend her against allegations that the congresswoman had married her brother in an immigration scheme. In addition, the board found that on five different occasions that Omar paid for travel and hotel expenses on out-of-state trips in 2017, including a rally for a local candidate in Boston, that Omar had "categorized as expenses of serving in public office."
The investigation started in 2018 after Minnesota GOP state Rep. Steve Drazkowski filed a complaint to the board. “This just really adds on to the litany of disrespect for the law that Rep. Omar has,” Drazkowski told the Washington Examiner after the board’s report was released Thursday. “You have eight violations here.” Drazkowski, who filed multiple complaints, called Omar “a serial violator of the law” who had no hesitation when it came to trampling on campaign finance rules.
Omar said in a statement she would comply with the board’s fine. "I'm glad this process is complete and that the Campaign Finance Board has come to a resolution on this matter. We have been collaborative in this process and are glad the report showed that none of the money was used for personal use, as was initially alleged,” Omar said. She also said she plans to close the account from the state race and give the money to organizations that help first-time candidates "so that the next generation of candidates and their teams know how to adequately track and report campaign expenses.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ilhan-omar-fined-by-state-for-unlawful-use-of-campaign-funds